Luke Ross was the repo man involved in the bizarre chain of events. It was late in the afternoon when he showed up at the house in southeast Dallas. The 31-year-old already had the keys to repossess Gardner's Expedition. "I open the door and I don't even have the door closed when I'm in. I put the key in and start it. I look out of the corner of my eye and I see a baby fly through the window."
The Dallas Police report says Gardner tossed her baby through the open window of her SUV. Ross says the one-year-old landed hard on the back seat "Like a kid bouncing on a bed."
The boy immediately started crying, so Ross put the Expedition in park. State law forbids a car from being repossessed if a person is inside. When Ross stepped out, he was greeted by a 15-year-old with a shotgun. "He shot once in the air and then shot once at me and hit me with a couple of pellets in the leg. It's not worth taking someone's life over a car. We're just guys out here trying to make a living."
But Gardner's family and neighbours say the teenage boy fired just once in the air and no more.
Gardner was charged with endangering a child. The 15-year-old who lives in Gardner's house and fired the shot gun was also arrested. Meanwhile, Ross successfully repossessed the Expedition after Dallas Police responded to the altercation.
With news video.
5 comments:
That's bulls*it, the woman and kid were ready inside the car, the repo man said that just to avoid f*cking up the reposession reward.
You're standing up for the family? Really?? She threw her kid through a window, and then they started shooting at him?!! The repo man was completely in the right. He was doing his job, reposessing things that don't belong to people because they can't pay for them.
If you borrowed the money to buy it, you don't own it until you've paid it back.
'Homeowners' are also finding this out the hard way.
The boy with the shotgun, subsequently identified as "jessie Reyna", is apparently the woman's son. OK, couple of things here. For starters, her son has a different last name as she does. That implies something about her marital history (although nothing that surprises anyone who has seen her picture). More disturbing is the math on this. Her son is 15. She is 28. Wow.
Wow, indeed. You'd think that since this is at least her second child, she'd know that they aren't supposed to be tossed through car windows.
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